Biography
Cristina Alaimo
Cristina Alaimo is Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School, France. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at LUISS University, Rome, Italy and Surrey Business School, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in Management, Information Systems, and Innovation from LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research focuses on the innovation brought about by data-based services and their consequences for organizations and society. She is also interested in studying the broader ecosystem of data exchanges in which digital platforms are embedded and how these new platform ecosystems emerge and evolve. Cristina’s work has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, The Information Society, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. She is a co-author with Jannis Kallinikos of the book “Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy,” The MIT Press (2024). Cristina is Senior Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems and for Organization Studies and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizations Sociology and of the Journal of Management Information Systems. She is also a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Digital Economy at Surrey Business School, UK.
Jannis Kallinikos
Jannis Kallinikos is professor of Organization Studies at Luiss University, Rome, Italy where he holds the Cisco Chair on Digital Transformation and Data-Driven Innovation. His research focuses on the impact of data and digital technologies on organizations, economic institutions and practices. He has published widely in Management, Information Systems and Sociology journals and written several monographs including The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2007) and Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice (Palgrave, 2011). He has together with Paul Leonardi and Bonnie Nardi co-edited Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World (Oxford University Press, 2012). Since 2019, Kallinikos is advisor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the nomination of Nobel Prize candidates in Economics.
